Eagle County sheriffs found 21 pounds of meth, oxycodone pills and cash along with baseball gloves and cleats in Camargo’s vehicle.

MESA, Ariz – Cubs prospect Jesus Camargo was arrested on Wednesday in Eagle, Colorado after deputies found 21 pounds of meth and oxycodone pills in his duffel bag. Camargo, who was held on $75,000 bond, faces four felony possession and distribution charges.

According to reports, local authorities pulled Camargo over for speeding and drifting in and out of lanes. Upon K-9 units searching the vehicle, Eagle County sheriffs found the meth, oxycodone pills and cash in a Cubs duffel bag, as well as baseball gloves and cleats.

“We are aware of the arrest of one of our Minor League players,” Cubs SVP of communications Julian Green told the Sun-Times in a statement. “We are investigating this matter and cannot provide additional comment until we have further details.”

Camargo, 25, signed with the Cubs as an international free agent out of Sinaloa, Mexico in 2014. He pitched for Class A-Advanced Myrtle Beach in 2019.

Marisnick skills on display in first week of games

Outfielder Jake Marisnick’s Cubs debut this spring was delayed after being slowed by a right calf injury. But after his first week of game action, he’s already showing why the Cubs wanted to add him to their outfield mix.

Marisnick, who is considered one of the game’s best defensive outfielders, has already been making plays with the glove and the bat and his early results have already gotten the attention of his manager.

“It’s an easy run out there [in the outfield],” Ross said. “It’s one of those sneaky [runs], it doesn’t look like he’s moving very fast. But he’s just covering a ton of ground. He just runs the ball down with ease. … It’s good. The arm is good. He’s swung the bat well, so it’s been nice to have him back and healthy.

“It looks like a group that enjoys playing the game and that’s kind of the vibe I’ve gotten early,” Marisnick said. “I’m really happy to be here right now, to be honest with you just kind of interacting with these guys and seeing the group that’s in that clubhouse. It’s unbelievable.”

The 29-year-old outfielder signed a one-year deal this offseason and has a career .229/.281/.385 slash line with 56 homers and 72 stolen bases.

Wick throws off the mound

Right-hander Rowan Wick threw off the mound for the first time this spring after suffering an intercostal injury earlier this spring. Wick threw 10 pitches during his bullpen as his throwing progression ramps up. The 28-year-old right-hander reached 105 feet playing long toss last week.

“Rowan Wick is in a really good spot,” Ross said. “He’s itching to do more. [We’re] trying to navigate a good plan for him. He’s feeling really good, but as good as he’s feeling which is always great news, with all the time off we’re trying to build him back up in the right capacity. The trainers and the pitching guys are on top of that, but things are going really well for him.”

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City officials announced 1 million shots have now been given out at Chicago sites. About 1.7 million residents have been fully vaccinated statewide so far, about 13.6% of the population.

Public health officials on Saturday reported another six-figure vaccination day for Illinois, but 1,962 more people tested positive for COVID-19 to raise the statewide infection rate to its highest point in almost a month.

The new cases were diagnosed among 77,661 tests, raising the average positivity rate over the past week to 2.6%. Experts use that number to gauge how rapidly the virus is spreading.

It hit an all-time low of 2.1% last weekend but has now increased for four consecutive days. As infections have declined dramatically statewide since the start of the year, the positivity rate hadn’t hit 2.6% since Feb. 25.

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The Illinois Department of Public Health also reported 25 more coronavirus deaths, including that of a Cook County woman in her 30s.

The number of hospitalized patients increased slightly as well to 1,179, but that’s still near a record low.

Over the past year, more than 1.2 million Illinoisans have contracted COVID-19, including 21,059 who have died.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said last week “the end seems truly to be in sight,” but warned that residents need to be vigilant with the virus still cycling through communities as a massive vaccination campaign continues.

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A total of 120,426 shots went into arms statewide Friday, marking the state’s sixth-best vaccination day yet. On average, 98,165 residents have been inoculated each day over the past week.

City officials on Saturday announced more than 1 million shots have now administered at sites across Chicago. About 4.6 million shots have been doled out in all of Illinois, with 1.7 million residents considered fully vaccinated — just 13.6% of the population.

Providers in suburban Cook County will begin vaccinating people 16 and up with chronic health conditions like heart disease and diabetes on Monday. City officials will expand eligibility in Chicago March 29.

Pritzker has said he’ll open eligibility to anyone over 16 on April 12, while the state could begin gradually loosening more business restrictions by May.

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120K more COVID-19 shots given in Illinois as positivity rate ticks up again

Public health officials on Saturday reported another six-figure vaccination day for Illinois, but 1,962 more people tested positive for COVID-19 to raise the statewide infection rate to its highest point in almost a month.

The new cases were diagnosed among 77,661 tests, raising the average positivity rate over the past week to 2.6%. Experts use that number to gauge how rapidly the virus is spreading.

It hit an all-time low of 2.1% last weekend but has now increased for four consecutive days. As infections have declined dramatically statewide since the start of the year, the positivity rate hadn’t hit 2.6% since Feb. 25.

The Illinois Department of Public Health also reported 25 more coronavirus deaths, including that of a Cook County woman in her 30s.

The number of hospitalized patients increased slightly as well to 1,179, but that’s still near a record low.

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3:00 p.m. City snuffs out smokers, says they won’t have priority for vaccine

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Being a regular visitor to Flavor Country might get you to the front of the line for a COVID-19 shot in most of Illinois and beyond, but not in Chicago.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised eyebrows when it included smokers on the list of people who should be prioritized for vaccination because of increased vulnerability to the coronavirus due to underlying health conditions.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker followed suit when he expanded the state’s pool of eligible vaccine recipients last month. So did officials in suburban Cook County, which will start inoculating people 16 and older with chronic conditions beginning Monday.

But Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady have snuffed out eligibility for smokers when registration opens to more residents with the city’s launch of vaccination Phase 1C on March 29.

“In this interim period where we just have very limited vaccine, we’re using the state’s 1B+ guidance, but we did not include smokers in that,” Arwady said during an online Q&A last week.

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2:12 p.m. Loretto exec prays for redemption after COVID vaccine mess

The chief executive of The Loretto Hospital posted a prayer on Facebook asking for the Lord’s forgiveness on the same day he and the officer who orchestrated the Trump Tower COVID-19 vaccinations were reprimanded by the West Side institution’s board.

“Have mercy on me O God,” George Miller wrote on Facebook. “Forgive me for going my own way and not aligning my life with Your perfect will. I confess that I have been misguided by my own self-serving purposes and have lost sight of Your face.”

The prayer, posted Friday morning, preceded a statement later in the day from Loretto’s board that announced an undisclosed action against the CEO and another top officer after a week of disclosures about the hospital’s vaccinations of ineligible people. Miller couldn’t be reached for comment.

“We are disappointed by the revelations of the past week,” the board said in a statement. “We have taken appropriate actions of reprimand against Loretto’s President/CEO George Miller and [Chief Operating Officer] Anosh Ahmed, MD, for their roles in mistakes of judgment made.”

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9:17 a.m. Cook County to prioritize vaccinations in 32 suburbs

Cook County health officials will prioritize coronavirus vaccine appointments in more than two dozen of the hardest-hit suburbs to ensure equal access to the life-saving shots.

The 32 suburbs given high priority for shots were predominantly communities of color in the west and south suburbs, the Cook County Department of Public Health announced Friday.

The department used two risk-factor indexes to identify the municipalities most adversely impacted by COVID-19. Those indexes — the COVID-19 Vulnerability Index and Social Vulnerability Index — considered factors including socioeconomic, household composition and disability, minority status and language.

Residents can register for an appointment online at vaccine.cookcountyil.gov.

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• Public health officials on Friday announced 135,525 more COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered statewide.
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9:20 a.m. Loretto Hospital leaders deserve more than a ‘harsh reprimand’ for misuse of COVID shots

I was pleasantly surprised when Loretto Hospital, a small hospital in Austin, was chosen to kick off the city’s campaign to get Chicagoans vaccinated against the deadly COVID-19 virus.

The city’s honor did two things:

• It pushed the issue of health care disparities from handwringing to action.
• And it elevated the profile of a community hospital that desperately needed its own shot in the arm.

Sandwiched between the massive Loyola University Medical Center in nearby Maywood and the sprawling medical district to the east, Loretto has struggled to be recognized as a credible provider of care in an area that desperately needs access to quality health care.

Hospitals like Loretto have suffered because too often community residents with financial resources and good insurance choose to go elsewhere.

Unfortunately, the goings-on since those first shots of the Pfizer vaccine went to Loretto’s hospital workers are shocking. Instead of focusing on the Austin community, where there is no shortage of people waiting to be vaccinated, the vaccine also was given to workers at Trump Tower’s posh hotel and apartments — where Loretto’s chief operating officer, Dr. Anosh Ahmed, owns a unit.

Before the furor died down over that came reports that Cook County judges and their spouses were “invited” to get shots even though it wasn’t their turn. And then this bombshell Friday: 200 members of the hospital CEO’s church, Valley Kingdom Ministries International in Oak Forest, were given doses of Loretto’s supply of the coveted vaccine.

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In a recent column, John Kass of the Tribune asks a question that is very much on the minds of lots of people these days including some cops themselves. “WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A COP IN CHICAGO.” What type of individual runs toward gunfire when everyone else is fleeing for their lives, what type of person wants to constantly deal with suffering, injustice, and cruelty, and who wants to hear the sobbing and grieving of victims and loved ones, and who wants to be around gangsters, killers and sociopaths, and have to make split-second life and death decisions that sometimes take investigative agencies weeks and even months to decide if it was the right one.

What type of individual wants to be judged by incidents perpetrated by others in the profession that are sometimes hundreds of miles away, across America. Indeed these are some of the questions that almost all of us who work or have worked in law enforcement ask ourselves over the course of one’s career.

In America today there are an estimated 800,000 law enforcement officers in some 18,000 states, county, city, and federal agencies. So my answer to John is lots of folks want to be cops. For 99% of the profession, it is a call to service. I’m not just speaking of my 33-year career in the Chicago Police Department. It was what I observed in my fellow brother and sisters over the years. That dedicated service costs countless lives and horrific injuries while serving and protecting their fellow man. Nothing is more despicable to good cops than a bad cop, whether it be corruption, brutality, or unprofessional behavior, it hurts all of us.

The last few years no doubt have been an exasperating time for many law enforcement officers, most especially in Chicago. This year alone 15 officers have come under gunfire with 3 wounded in the last 7 days, and 11 officers have committed suicide since 2018. Sometimes it’s not the visible wounds that are a cop’s enemy. It’s the day after day of dealing with the stress and strain of poverty, neglect, and violence that slowly takes its toll on the human psyche. Since the advent of body cameras in my opinion the number of times that cops get it right is probably 98% of the time. However, from time to time since cops come from the human race there will always be some failure, corruption, and unacceptable behavior. Good cops have to live with that and that is how it should be — a constant drive to get better.

At times I get to thinking that police reform is human reform — better cops mean better service to the community. Criticism of cops in America today is not a war on cops as some people have suggested we do get that. It is a demand that we do it better and with the best people possible. We understand scrutiny, we understand the criticism, we even sometimes understand the political motives of people who use our flaws to pass judgment on an entire profession.

The answer to John Kass’s question, “WHO WANTS TO BE A COP” is the same as it’s always been which is that inner drive to serve and protect by good, well-meaning, and decent people who are thrust into an arena that sometimes is overwhelming. If we think about our lives and why we do things, I think one of the best sayings that fit Cops and others who dedicate their lives to service is this simple saying lost to history.”ONE OF THE GREATEST EVILS IN THE WORLD IS NON INVOLVEMENT.” POLICE WORK MAKES DEMANDS BEYOND THE ORDINARY, CERTAIN COMMITMENTS HAVE TO BE ACCEPTED, ALONG WITH THE REWARDS.” WHAT IS NOT LOST TO HISTORY IS EDMUNDS BURKS WORDS–: “HE THAT WRESTLES WITH US STRENGTHENS OUR NERVES AND SHARPENS OUR SKILL. OUR ANTOGNIST IS OUR HELPER.”

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The Middle Kids dropped their long-awaited sophomore album this week, Today We’re The Greatest and, because of all the EP’s released in between, there’s been no slump. Hannah Joy and Company offer another batch of pop-and-rock-goodness, just in time for Spring.

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Grammys are overrated! If you don’t believe me, check out Henry Mancini. Seventy-two Grammy nominations with twenty wins. Nothing against Hank but if you’ve won more awards than The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin and every other rock legend, then either the awards or way overrated or I’m missing something….probably both.

However, when we look at the Grammy category Album of the Year, overrated is far from a word I would use to call the winners. Until last Sunday, there have been only three artists to win this award three times…..Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon. They’re all legends in the world of music. So when Taylor Swift joined them with her third Album of the Year award, I thought maybe I should dig a little deeper into her musical catalog.

What’s a better place to start than her latest winning album, “Folklore.”

The Covid-19 pandemic doesn’t play favorites; so like the rest of us, Taylor put her plans for 2020 on hold. Her plans for last year were a little more intense than the rest of us. She had planned a concert tour to support her latest album, “Lover.” But since playing live shows became impossible, she put her time into doing what a lot of musicians did last year, make an unplanned new album. Hence, “Folklore.”

Man, she did it big-time. “Folklore” is sixteen songs that has a running time of more than one hour. Yes, it’s an investment of your time, but it’s worth it. I’ve seen reviews where the music is described as grunge, folk or alternative and it may be some of all of them, but the best description is it’s an hour of lovely songs.

It’s a very sparse album, you’ll hear a lot of tunes with only piano and guitar. The lyrics are said not be autobiographical, but knowing her history of songwriting, c’mon. If that’s true, that’s quite an imagination that girl has going on!

“Folklore” is an album that you can picture Taylor Swift playing in its entirety in a small venue. Maybe that will happen in a decade a two, when she’s done filling huge arenas and stadiums. I know I would certainly pay money to hear that. You should too.

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Saturday, March 20, 2021

PUBLIC LEAGUE RED SOUTH-CENTRAL

Simeon at Corliss, 4:30

PUBLIC LEAGUE RED WEST-NORTH

Young at North Lawndale, PPD/CNL

PUBLIC LEAGUE WHITE-SOUTH

Carver at Agricultural Science, 1:00

NON CONFERENCE

Goode at Catalyst-Maria, 12:30

Hyde Park at South Shore, 2:30

King at Schurz, 12:00

Northside at Payton, 1:00

Ogden at Lake View, 11:30

Orr at Fenger, 12:00

Perspectives-MSA at Pespectives-Lead, 1:00

NOBLE LEAGUE TOURNAMENT

Championship:

Bulls vs. Comer, at Rowe-Clark, 3:00

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COVID-delayed Football Championship Subdivision, spring baseball with its peculiar rules are odd ducks on wagering menu 

LAS VEGAS — Chris Andrews scans five computer faces. Turning to his right, he gazes at a dozen large TV screens — resembling “The Brady Bunch” intro — on the opposite wall.

The South Point sportsbook director zeroes in on a game of consequence for his shop that has nothing to do with the NBA, NHL or NCAA basketball.

Presbyterian leads 6.5-point underdog Morehead State 24-3 just before halftime late last Saturday morning. It’s spring football. Andrews said, “We’ve gotten steamed on Morehead.”

A statement no book director could have ever envisioned uttering. In industry lexicon, that means cash has flowed on Morehead, reducing its point spread and creating liability for the house.

That steam, though, was misdirected. Presbyterian would win 31-16. The book wins again, this time on the coronavirus-delayed oddity of the Football Championship Subdivision, whose 16-team playoff is slated for April 18 to May 15.

Baseball’s spring training has been another odd duck on the wagering menu. Games end whenever, with pitch limits and uncertain split-squad lineups.

With unusual candor, Andrews will explain how he and his oddsmakers line those two sports. On a spring Saturday, he’s grateful to be in this office, with a plethora of sports on these screens.

Not long ago, a doctor told him he had a 50-50 chance of surviving a medical procedure.

“Well,” Andrews said, “that’s better odds than the casino gives you.”

Record Figures

In January, a record was set for a sixth consecutive month when $4.6 billion in legal sports wagers were made in the United States. New Jersey topped the chart at $959 million. Nevada ($647 million) was second, and the nascent Illinois market ($581 million) was fourth.

“Many said growing legalization would hurt Las Vegas, but I thought it would just grow the market,” said Andrews, a 40-year Nevada bookmaker. “I think I was right. I’d be bullish on Illinois, too, because they’re well-educated on betting.

“People know they’re not going to win all the time, but they don’t want to get screwed, either. They won’t put up with that.”

He scans a sheet of last weekend’s 37 FCS games. As a four-point underdog, Southern Illinois upset Northern Iowa 17-16. As a 20.5-point underdog, Western Illinois covered in a 38-21 loss to North Dakota.

The lines of nine games, he said, moved by at least three points from their opening numbers. That’s significant because handicappers salivate over gaining a point or two in perceived value.

“We’re kinda kickin’ ass on it,” Andrews said. “Favorites are ahead, but by no more than 60-40%.”

Meaning bettors, such as well-regarded Brad Powers, are not doing so well. On March 8, he tweeted that he was 16-25 and down five grand, betting $500 limits. He recommended going against his picks to “make $$$.”

Andrews said he and his crew tap Jeff Sagarin’s ratings and spreads from other books — an uncommon admission in the business — to produce South Point lines.

“We kind of heist the line off everybody else,” Andrews said. “We have an idea of where we’re supposed to be. After that, the money goes where the money goes.”

The South Point, though, is about breaking even on the diamond.

“Tell you the truth, I don’t know what the hell is going on in baseball,” he said. “We’re completely heisting the line [from others] when it comes out in the morning, but we’re doing business.”

With such a vast sports menu, Andrews and his oddsmakers must allocate their time wisely.

Last Saturday, the Brewers were -135 (risk $135 to win $100) against the Rangers, at +115. The game ended 4-4 after seven innings. Bettors were refunded their money.

Some sharp clientele has wagered the $500 limit, but Andrews suspects arbitrage: playing numbers against those from other books to guarantee profit or limit loss.

“I’d rather be bettin’ hockey or NBA or college basketball than baseball, with these funky rules,” Andrews said. “That’s a tough handicap right now.”

A Big Anniversary

Andrews, who turns 65 in April, hails from the Pittsburgh area, a melting-pot region known as the Cradle of Bookies. He booked his first bet in the fifth grade. He likens the area to Chicago.

“With a lot of ethnicities, gambling is unifying, a common denominator,” he said. “I think it’s kind of built into the ethos of both places.”

A certain toughness, maybe from those roots, might have helped Andrews in 2017, when he was first diagnosed with a form of blood cancer — myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).

A bone-marrow transplant was recommended, but the grueling process worried him for more than a year. His condition worsened. Wife Pamela and their five children convinced him to have the procedure at USC Medical Center.

“Those first couple of weeks were horrible,” Andrews said. “They knock out your entire immune system so it will take the transplant.”

Doctors, however, buoyed him. Little by little, he began feeling better.

In November, he contracted the coronavirus, the worst of it being a persistent cough that didn’t allow him to sleep for five or six days.

Today, Andrews looks good and feels good. A follow-up to his successful and entertaining “Then One Day . . .” 2017 autobiography is in the works, as is a novel involving his Greek heritage.

Then comes July.

“A big benchmark, my two-year [transplant] anniversary,” he said. “They say if you make it to two years, you’ve survived. I should have regular immunity like any other 65-year-old.” V

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Donald Lassere is returning to his hometown of Chicago with a plan to make the museum more interactive and exciting and to build and diversify a clientele that is now “more than 80%” white in a majority-minority city.

Chicago’s oldest museum also has one of the lowest profiles, playing second-fiddle to the Art Institute, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium.

But that could change, if Donald Lassere, newly hired president and CEO of the Chicago History Museum, has his way.

Lassere is returning to his hometown of Chicago with a plan to make the History Museum more interactive and exciting and to build and diversify museum attendance that is now “more than 80%” white in a majority-minority city.

Retiring CEO Gary Johnson’s replacement knows how to do that because he’s already done it.

He tripled attendance at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville by shifting the public’s perception of it from a boxing museum to a cultural center. It used Ali’s core principles — spirituality, respect, confidence, dedication, giving and conviction — to inspire people.

“I had an idea that the target market for the Muhammad Ali Center should be women, ages 18-to-40. Basically mothers. When I said that, I got some very strange looks. But when families are planning their outings, it’s the head of the household, i.e., the woman, who is planning where the family is going to go,” Lassere told the Sun-Times.

“Because we decided we were gonna target women, we changed our branding. We changed the type of temporary exhibits we had. We really changed our messaging about the center. And it worked.”

Lassere envisions endless possibilities to engineer a similar transformation at the History Museum.

“I went to Percy L. Julian High School on the South Side of Chicago. And it wasn’t until years later that I learned about Percy L. Julian. That he was this fantastic entrepreneur, African-American. He was an extremely brilliant scientist,” Lassere said.

“What if we talked about, from an exhibit perspective, why certain high schools are named after certain people from a historical perspective. That’s an idea that would resonate with the entire community and would be interesting to the entire community. That’s just one idea. It’s pie-in-the-sky. But who knows? It might happen.”

The History Museum could similarly play a role in the ongoing review of whether to retain or replace 41 Chicago statues, including those of four U.S. Presidents: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley.

“The History Museum should be the teller of truth. That’s unbiased truth. Once that’s out there, then you can create a constructive discourse about why it may be necessary for some of these statutes to be removed from a historical perspective, what they represent,” Lassere said.

“We’re not gonna play politics. That’s not our role. Our role really is to make sure people understand the importance of why these things are even being discussed. What the history is. Why it’s offensive to some people. Creating that environment where people can talk about these significantly divisive issues.”

Lassere also has a few ideas to boost attendance by appealing directly to the melting pot of ethnic groups that “migrated to Chicago.”

“Chicago history is world history because we have so many ethnic groups that migrated here. Let’s talk about the reasons for that. Why do you have a large Latinx community? Why do you have a large African-American community? Why do you have a large Polish community, Greek community? Talk about those migratory patterns. Why did that happen? That would be so interesting to so many people,” he said.

Lassere pointed to the global shoes exhibit he put together in Louisville.

“Kids could come in and try on different shoes from different cultures, different communities, different countries. That was exciting to them. It taught them about other cultures. And the touching and the feeling of these artifacts is very important. You can’t do that through a video screen,” he said.

With a 15-year-old daughter, Lassere said he’s well aware the History Museum needs to become more exciting to teenagers addicted to cell phones, video games and social media.

He plans to do that, in part, through the types of music made famous in Chicago: jazz, blues and house music.

“Believe it or not, I listened to house music when I was a teenager. Teenagers are still listening to it. Did they know that it originated in Chicago? No. We may be able to have an exhibit around that as well as other genres of music,” he said.

He suggested the exhibit could be interactive, allowing teens to perhaps leave with their own recording of house music.

“It’s creative things like that that can really be attractive to multi-generations of Chicagoans,” Lassere said.

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A man was killed in a shooting Friday in the 3100 block of West Lake Street.

A man was killed and three others were wounded in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend, including a 10-year-old boy who was shot Friday in East Garfield Park on the West Side.

The boy was sitting in a vehicle with two others when someone walked up and fired shots at them about 6:50 p.m. in the 3100 block of West Lake Street, Chicago police said.

The man, 24, was struck in the side and pronounced dead on the scene, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified him as Marquel Robinson of East Garfield Park.

The boy was shot in the leg, while a 25-year-old woman was struck in the thigh and ankle, police said. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.

Saturday morning, a 17-year-old boy was shot and seriously wounded by a person who then stole his vehicle in Austin.

The teen was sitting in his vehicle about 2:55 a.m. in the 5400 block of West Race Avenue when a person shot him and took his vehicle, Chicago police said.

He suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen and leg and was transported to Loyola Medical Center in Maywood in serious condition, police said.

The teen was unable to provide any additional details on the shooting, according to police.

Forty people were shot, 5 fatally, last weekend in Chicago.

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